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rfh., after, 1265, 1398, -rr (sic), 2688; iar mbeith, while, 1265, 1398-9, 2414, 3894, 6898, after having been, 1613-14.

Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe. Author: Aodh Mac Aingil. Editor: Cainneach Ó Maonaigh O.F.M.

(eclipsing), prep., after, 324, 453, 999, etc., generally ar: ar gcúl, 359; with poss. pron. arnam, 328; arna, 387; arnar, 3924; iarna, 324; mostly used with verbal noun: iar n-éag dóibh, ‘after their death,’ 453; ar ndol dó isteagh, ‘after he had gone in,’ 313; ar ndearmad gach guaise, ‘forgetting (having forgotten) every danger,’ 583; ar dtiomsughadh, ‘having gathered,’ 673; cf. 674-76, 687; iarna mbreith, 324, 2597; with poss. this construction is often equivalent to past participle pass.: crann...arna uile-losgadh, ‘consumed,’ 387; arna suidhiughadh, ‘seated, 930; biaidh mé arnam shásadh (= sásta), 3970; atáim arnam choimmeas, ‘comparatus sum,’ 328; atámuid arnar bhfóirithin, ‘nos liberati sumus,’ 3924;--in the phr. ar mbeith, ar has lost the meaning ‘after’; it supplies the place of the missing *ag beith: ar mbeith im luaith dham, ‘cum sim cinis,’ 430; ar mbeith galrach uile dhóibh, ‘they being all diseased,’ 507; ar mbeith i staid an ionnracuis dó, ‘when he was in the state of innocence,’ 513; ar mbeith dall dó, 760; iar mbeith ag teitheadh do A., ‘while A. was fleeing,’ 999

Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis: The Three Shafts of Death. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.